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Rupert Murdoch Claims To Own the 'Sky' In 'Skype'
Crudely_Indecent writes "Not content to own just news stories, Rupert Murdoch is now going after individual words! His BSkyB is fighting a legal battle with Skype, claiming that it owns the 'Sky' in 'Skype.' From the article: 'A spokesman for Sky confirmed that the company has been involved in a "five-year dispute with Skype" over trademark applications filed by the telecomms company. These are, the spokesman added: "including, but not limited to, television-related goods and services."'"
Seems they own the word Douche in the word Douchebag too.
I thought trademarks were related to the possibility of accidental confusion. If Murdoch thinks the average person will confuse BSkyB and Skype, he must have the most horrendous opinion of the average person!
Whens he gonna die?
take my land
take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'm still free
you can't take the sky from me
(Sorry, it's the first thing that came to mind.....)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
He employs Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, the entire Fox and Friends team; and blames the internet for the fail of Newscorp. Obviously he's an moron.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits" - Albert Einstein
Isn't it interesting how the scope of Trademarks and IP law keep expanding. The original concept of a trademark was to make it difficult for the competition to pass their products off as your products, it had this concept of a "reasonable person" being confused between mark A and mark B. I think when we have companies protecting dictionary words and words containing other words that they happen to have trademarked it has gone far further than the original concept.
I wonder how long until someone protects the letter 'a' and then requires a cash payment each time you use that letter in your trademark? I know that sounds like an insane concept but if you asked people about what is happening today with IP and trademarks they would have told you that was insane too!
Yes but he also owns the merde in Murdoch.
-- open source? sounds like the real book --
What next? Saying he owns the fox in firefox?
You're confusing trademarks with patents. Trademarks are to prevent people from fraudulently claiming to be affiliated with a business. For example, lets pretend you started a successful, well respected business named 'Haedrian's Home Improvements' and trademark the name. If I try to cash in on your success by setting up a similar business named "Haeadrian's Home Improvements" then you could sue me for trademark infringement. It's to prevent me from ruining your business's reputation by doing shitty work for customers who aren't smart enough to realize that There's an extra A in my business's name and it's not the same company as yours. It doesn't matter if either of us invented anything.
Sorry, Rupert! The good folks at SK Hand tools http://www.skhandtool.com/ have had a trademark in SK since 1921. I think you owe them 2/5 of all the revenues BSkyB have taken in since 1989.
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You bill about $0.50 and site about the same for it's text.
Well I'm trademarking superfluous apostrophes and you owe me big time!
So if Murdoch wins this, will he set a precedent that allows KY Jelly to sue him for the KY in SKY?
After all, it might create confusion in the market, seeing as how they are both in the business of fucking you in the arse.
very good. for non-speakers of French, merde means crap.
If you want your life to be different, live it differently.
but noone says "Sky" anymore, especially after they started calling it BSkyB themselves.
They refer to themselves as Sky all the time, in their own advertising. Ask anybody in the UK or Ireland who BSkyB is and you'll probably get nothing but a blank stare from 3/4 of them. They're known as Sky to the general public, they're referred to as Sky in rival advertising (e.g. not available on Sky!).
A powerful, mean and hateful man - who's wealth and power have brought no comfort to his cramped and ugly little self. The paucity of his humanity is demonstrated with every pathetic grab he makes.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I own the "ass" in Fox Classics. So there.
They will not have him.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
You think that is bad, wait till they have to pay another 2/5 for BS.
Subscribers have been paying for that for over two decades now.
Oh, how convenient: a theory about God that doesn't involve looking through a telescope.
Infringing a Trademark - Passing your product off as someone elses, or connected to someone elses
Infringing Copyright - Copying a complete or partial work without the artists permission
Infringing Patent - Using a design for an invention without paying the patentor
Trademarks don't protect inventors they protect company image
Copyright doesn't protect inventors, it protects artists works ...
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Gosh, I wonder why Fox News owned by Ruport Murdoch isn't tearing Mr Ruport Murdoch a new one over this.
And if you wonder why the BBC isn't reporting? Same deal. Us knows us.
Don't expect unbiased reporting on the news, by the news.
Depening on the mainstream news for news about mainstream news companies is like allowing politicians to vote on their own salaries. Board members to vote on board of director salaries. VVD members (dutch right wing party) to examine VVD members who mismanged a bank and werent overseen by the regulator who is a member of the VVD.
Politics, maybe if we shot everyone who watches Idols, we would have a bit more scrutiny.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Haha
I just envisioned an englishman trying to learn norse. He points up and asks the viking "what do you call that?" The viking gives him the norse word for cloud. But of course since its always cloudy and raining in england, the englishman never learns the norse word for sky, only the norse word for cloud.
I would use the candid camera defense. The idea is, this lawsuit is so ridiculous we must be on candid camera. Everyone involved would break out laughing saying "Oh, I get it!" and "OK, where are the cameras?" Then everyone on our side would proceed to believe it was a joke and not take anything Rupert's lawyers say seriously, etc.
Then again, there's probably a good reason I'm not a lawyer.
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